The Adventures of Roberta X

     I was a little down last night.  Feeling kind of trapped -- I want to write more, but I'm coming home from work just exhausted.  ...

     Week before last, I bought a couple of clever egg poachers made of silicone rubber at Agrarian.  (Like this , though better via the ...

     I took my H&R Model 999 to the range at Indy Arms Company , with the just-installed new rear sight the Data Viking had located on e...

     Ever notice that when there is a "government shutdown" in the United States, Congress and the Internal Revenue Service appea...

     Indianapolis has a violence problem.  Oh, Chicago has a murder rate well ahead of ours, but the city's record is far from admirable...

     There was a hole in the sky yesterday.      I don't know why.  This kind of phenomenon is, of course, characteristic of the sma...

     ....Mr. Artie Shaw and the band:      I knew the tune but not the title or artist.  Shaw, who was a complicated guy (and that's a...

     They're used on guy wires and long support cables.  They prevent or reduce "aeolian vibration," which is to say, they kee...

    The big Ace Hardware in a neighborhood between Broad Ripple and the Skunk Works North Campus has a lot of fasteners and small findings o...

     The following has been slightly modified, to protect the guilty: Dear REMF:      Troops arrived promptly on schedule; ammunition an...

     And is it ever.  I'm up ahead of the roosters to get ready to meet a tower crew at the North Campus.  So far, this project has proc...

     I don't want to brag -- really, I don't.  So I'm not. I think the guy in the bay to my left was working on weak-hand drills...